What's it made of?
Building blocks of DNA and RNA.
What are nucleotides?
Sum total of all process in an organism that use energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life.
What is anabolism?
What is the atomic number?
Organisms that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
Part of the microscope you look through.
What is the eyepiece?
Basic building blocks of proteins, each containing a carboxyl group and an amino group.
Sum total of all processes in an organism that break down chemicals to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks.
What is catabolism?
Collection of atoms that al have the same number of protons.
What are elements?
Organisms that eat only organisms other than plants.
What are cornivores?
Metal tubes on microscope that ontain lenses of barying powers, usually 4x, 10x, and 40x.
What are objectives?
Simple sugars; building blocks of more complex carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides?
Process in which the normal shape of a protein is lost, usually due to heat.
What is denaturation?
Sum of the protons and neutrons in an atom.
What is the atomic mass?
Organisms that eat both plants an other organisms.
What are omnivores?
Heavy structure at the bottom of the microscope that supports it and makes it steady.
What is the base?
Two different molecules that have the same chemical formula.
What are isomers?
A chemical reaction in which molecules combine by removing water.
What is dehydration reaction?
Chemical bond formed by the sharing of electrons between two or more atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
Organisms that depend on other organisms for food.
What are heterotrophs?
Platform just below the objectives and above the light source where the specimen is placed.
What is the stage?
Also known as fats, these complex molecules are formed when three fatty acids link to glycerol.
What are lipids?
Substance that alters the speed of a chemical reaction but is not used up in the process.
What is a catalyst?
Positively or negatively charged atoms resulting from the transfer of electrons.
What is an ion?
Organisms that are able to make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
Should be used first when focusing. Does not make the image as sharp as can be.
What is the coarse focus?